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We pit steel-string guitars head-to-head with their nylon-string counterparts. What are the main differences, and which is best for you?
Even for experienced steel-string guitar players, the world of nylon-string and classical guitar can be intimidating. There is a lot of jargon, much of it in Spanish, and an entire vocabulary of ...
From nickel to stainless steel, a list of the best strings for electric guitars, keeping comfort, sound quality, and durability in mind.
Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don&… ...
For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music.
The right strings can change how your bass sounds and feels. We've found the best bass guitar strings for every size, genre & playing style ...
This is a 14-fret-to-the-body guitar, so from a distance, only the classical-style slot head and white barrel tuners give the nylon game away, while more eagle-eyed observers will also notice the ...
As a fan of electronic guitars -- as opposed to plain-old electrics -- the Jammy seems like a very interesting piece of kit. Designed to be played like a regular guitar, you fret on the top part ...
Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, index and middle finger.
Benders like this can be a common sight on electric guitars, and Samurai Guitarist was clearly keen to share the love with the acoustic world, equipping Bowdens to the B and G strings on his ...
Korn 's James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch dove deep into the low end with their seven-string guitars, and came up with the blueprint for nü-metal way back on their 1994 self-titled ...
The lap steel guitar, operated by sliding a steel bar along steel strings, is both an instrument and a style of playing. A new CD, Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar, explores the wide ...